Wikis and blogs are widely used Web 2.0 tools, and can have many applications in the library media center. View the following blogs and wikis. Consider ways you could use them in your LMC. Create your own wiki at Wikispaces. Explore the possibilities and begin creating your wiki.
Digital bookshelves are great ways to share books reviews with others. Working with a partner, visit Library Thing and Shelfari. Examples from meida centers below also include blogs which integrate a "shelf" into the blog. Choose your favorite, sign up, and create your online book shelf. Add it to your blog. Consider ways you might implement a digital book shelf into your library curriculum. Consider the start page you created yesterday along with Pageflakes we reviewed. Can you put your self on your start page? Blog: Comment on your blog about how you will use the digital book shelf in your LMC.
Flickr is an online photo sharing site. Mashups are basically when you take features from one application such as flickr and mash it up with another application. Some neat tools are born! The possibilities for the library media center are endless. With a partner, take a look and see what interesting and creative ways you can use Flickr and Flickr Mashups in your LMC.
Blog: Comment on your blog about your favorite Flickr tool, and how you might use it in your library media center.
VoiceThread allows you to upload images and comment on this through text or voice. VoiceThread is secure for K-12 education. Explore the presentation tools and examples below. Consider ways to use the tools in the library media center or in collaboration with classroom teachers.
Blog: Comment on your blog about your favorite tool and how you plan to use it.
More Resources for More Web 2.0 Tools Kathy Schrock Diigo Bookmarks Webtools4u2use A wiki of Web 2.0 tools for library media specialists Joyce Valenza New Tools Wiki
Library Media Program 2.0
Tools for Exploration
No Future Left Behindhttp://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2008/12/12/seven-brilliant-things-teachers-do-with-technology.html
Copyright and Creative Commons Licensing
Creative Commons LicensesA Fair(y) Use Tale
Creative Commons-Copyright Solution
TeacherTube and YouTube
Great sites for tutorials for Web 2.0 tools for professional use as well as student use.http://www.teachertube.com/uprofile.php?UID=111668
http://www.youtube.com/user/theunquietlibrary
Social Tools in the Library Media Program
Meeting the Arkansas Library Media Frameworks and the ISTE NETS-StudentsNETS-S
NETS-S Implementation Wiki
Activity #1: Blogs and Wikis in the LMC
Wikis and blogs are widely used Web 2.0 tools, and can have many applications in the library media center. View the following blogs and wikis. Consider ways you could use them in your LMC. Create your own wiki at Wikispaces. Explore the possibilities and begin creating your wiki.Blog: Develop one way to use a blog and one way to use a wiki for the upcoming school year and post to your blog along with the link to your wiki.
http://theunquietlibrary.wikispaces.com/
http://theunquietlibrary.wordpress.com/
http://piratepods.blogspot.com/
http://beverlymedia.edublogs.org/
http://blatantbibliophiles.wordpress.com/
Activity #2: Digital Book Shelves
Digital bookshelves are great ways to share books reviews with others. Working with a partner, visit Library Thing and Shelfari. Examples from meida centers below also include blogs which integrate a "shelf" into the blog. Choose your favorite, sign up, and create your online book shelf. Add it to your blog. Consider ways you might implement a digital book shelf into your library curriculum. Consider the start page you created yesterday along with Pageflakes we reviewed. Can you put your self on your start page?Blog: Comment on your blog about how you will use the digital book shelf in your LMC.
**LibraryThing**
Examples: http://www.librarything.com/cata log/WHSLibrary, http://www.librarything.com/catalog/grizzlylibrary
Library Thing
**Shelfari**
Examples: (scroll down page) http://www.avon.k12.ma.us/librarymedia/ahlibraryhome.htm, http://www.shelfari.com/mrsjones/shelf, http://www.shelfari.com/o1517948762
Shelfari
Activity #3: Flickr and Flickr Mashups
Flickr is an online photo sharing site. Mashups are basically when you take features from one application such as flickr and mash it up with another application. Some neat tools are born! The possibilities for the library media center are endless. With a partner, take a look and see what interesting and creative ways you can use Flickr and Flickr Mashups in your LMC.Blog: Comment on your blog about your favorite Flickr tool, and how you might use it in your library media center.
Flickr
FlickrStorm
An Introduction to FlickrStorm
More tutorials on FlickrStorm
Using FlickrStorm Part 2
Using FlickrStorm Part 3
Flickr Toys give you many options for creating with photos. The educational possibilities are endless.
Examples: Librarian Trading Cards , National Park Trading Cards, http://www.flickr.com/photos/8166472@N03/
Mappr
Video Tutorial for Spell with Flickr
http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/ Colrpickr
Mosaic Maker
Bookr uses flickr pictures to illustrate books in a photobook. You can add text and turn pages. Example: http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/?id=2445
Flickr: Discussing FlickrEDU: Using Flickr Images in the Classroom
Activity #4: Presentation Tools 2.0
VoiceThread allows you to upload images and comment on this through text or voice. VoiceThread is secure for K-12 education. Explore the presentation tools and examples below. Consider ways to use the tools in the library media center or in collaboration with classroom teachers.Blog: Comment on your blog about your favorite tool and how you plan to use it.
Examples: http://ed.voicethread.com/#q.b82132.i418272, http://ed.voicethread.com/#u16209.b55184.i297972, http://voicethread.com/#q.b119840.i624917 , http://voicethread.com/#q.b119840.i624917, Fourteen Interesting Ways to Use VoiceThread in the ClassroomVideos below are library media specialists at a recent AASL Conference sharing how they use Web 2.0 tools.
SlideStory
Animoto Educator Acct.
Animoto.com
Animoto Tutorial
Slideshare
Examples:
Animoto
Library Media Specialist at AASL Conference on Using Slideshare
ToonDo Comic Strip Creator
Goanimate Create cartoons and animations
Activity #5 Explore More Tools
Enjoy exploring the tools below. Think of ways you could use them in your library media center.Blog: Comment on your blog about one tool, why you like it, and how you plan to use it.
Blabberize: Make your pictures talk.
Glogster: Poster Yourself (Educator site with student examples.)
Wordle: Generates work clouds.
Examples: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1028480&id=31676317923&ref=mf, http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/index.php/2008/06/
Examples: http://libraryppp.pbwiki.com/Mashups-and-More
Voki Get an avatar!
Skype: Free Calling (You will need to download and install.)
Skype in Schools Directory Wiki http://skypeinschools.pbwiki.com:80/
SurveyMonkey: Create your own surveys.
http://www.booksprouts.com/. Create a book Club.
More Resources for More Web 2.0 Tools
Kathy Schrock Diigo Bookmarks
Webtools4u2use A wiki of Web 2.0 tools for library media specialists
Joyce Valenza New Tools Wiki
Open Source Software
SLJ Article